Focusing on a century that fostered a growth industry in musical writingof many kinds (musical novels, programme notes, musical poetry, musicappreciation texts, journalism, scientific treatises, biography, etc.),this conference seeks to address three main questions. How is musicconceptualized in various textual situations/locations between c.1789 and1914? How can we best approach the relationships between music and texts?In what ways might comparative study of different languages, genres orcultural contexts help us explore the workings of word-musicrelationships?

This two-day conference at Senate House, University of London, aims toprovide a broad interdisciplinary experience. In addition to conferencepapers, the programme will include active learning and discussion abouthow we can cross between disciplines in scholarship and the classroom. Theevent will thus be particularly relevant to scholars and studentsembarking on interdisciplinary research and/or interdisciplinary teaching.The conference language will be English. A keynote address, 'MasteringBeethoven', will be given by Katherine Kolb (Southeastern LouisianaUniversity), former director of the Kolb-Proust Archive for Research atthe University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, joint editor of Proust inPerspective, editor of Proust's letters (Plon, 2004) and author ofnumerous articles on music criticism and on music in the literary works ofBerlioz and Balzac.

Proposals of 300 words are invited for 20-minute conference papers on anysubject relating to the approaches best suited to the study of music/textinter-relationships, and the ways in which these inter-relationshipsmanifest themselves.

Please also let us know if you would be interested in a 10-minute positionpaper for one of the following round-tables:

Locating and using sources Pedagogy Critical language/methodology Building links between the disciplines